To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (720326 ) 6/10/2013 11:25:41 AM From: tejek Read Replies (3) | Respond to Poor Issa........he wants so badly to be a big shot.Cummings on IRS story: 'The case is solved' Steve Benen they said , but should instead remain focused on the IRS controversy.There is, however, one serious problem with this advice: the IRS controversy is quickly unraveling . A self-described conservative Republican who is a manager in the Internal Revenue Service office that targeted tea party groups told investigators that he, not the White House, set the review in motion, the top Democrat on the House watchdog committee said Sunday. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released a partial transcript of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform interview with the unnamed manager in the IRS' Cincinnati office. In it, the employee said the extra scrutiny for tea party groups' tax exempt status was an effort to be consistent in reviewing applications and not driven by politics. "He is a conservative Republican working for the IRS. I think this interview and these statements go a long way to what's showing that the White House was not involved in this," Cummings said. You'll recall that Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released carefully edited partial transcripts of interviews with IRS employees, in the hopes keeping interest in the story alive. Asked to release full transcripts, so the public could see the context of the exchanges, Issa refused . And now we're starting to get a batter sense as to why Issa preferred to keep all of the facts out of the public light. Indeed, the Maryland Democrat said yesterday he will release the full transcripts to the media within the week unless Issa makes the disclosures himself.
